Where the Wisconsin men’s basketball roster stands heading into summer workouts

Exercises will final till Aug. 5 adopted by the Badgers’ journey to France, which permits for 10 additional practices. The summer season coaching interval consists of periods within the weight room, conditioning and practices.

The Badgers should change the manufacturing of stars Johnny Davis and Brad Davison from final season’s Massive Ten Convention regular-season championship. UW misplaced seven gamers as a result of commencement, the NBA draft and switch portal.

Davis and Davison mixed for 46.6% of the staff’s factors final season, and key bench gamers Chris Vogt, Lorne Bowman and Ben Carlson are also gone.

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The Badgers gained 5 gamers — three freshmen and two transfers — for the upcoming season and have 10 returning gamers.

UW nonetheless has two open scholarship spots that it may fill. 

Right here’s the place the roster stands as UW begins summer season exercises. 

UW has again three of final season’s beginning 5 in senior Tyler Wahl, junior Steven Crowl and sophomore Chucky Hepburn. The three gamers mixed for 28.1 factors per recreation final season.

Rotational gamers Jahcobi Neath, Jordan Davis and Carter Gilmore doubtless will step into larger roles with the lack of three guards and three large males. 

Neath performed probably the most out of the three with a mean of 9.7 minutes per recreation. He introduced through the summer season he was enjoying with a partial torn patellar tendon. Neath had surgical procedure in Could and sure will spend the summer season recovering.

Jordan Davis performed a mean of 6.5 minutes per recreation, with a breakout efficiency in opposition to Minnesota on Feb. 23 after his brother Johnny fouled out. Jordan Davis scored a career-high seven factors on 3-for-3 taking pictures whereas enjoying 20 minutes, probably the most court docket time he’s seen in a recreation.

Gilmore served as Wahl’s predominant substitution for the primary half of the season earlier than seeing his enjoying time dwindle. 

Markus Ilver solely performed in eight video games lst. Chris Hodges, a middle, redshirted final season.

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Stroll-ons Isaac Lindsey and Justin Taphorn are also again. 

Three gamers have been picked up following the completion of final season. Transfers Max Klesmit and Kamari McGee be part of the staff to fill holes on the guard place. Connor Essegian is UW’s lone scholarship freshman, and he’ll be joined by most well-liked walk-ons Ross Candelino and Lake County Lutheran’s Luke Haertle. 

Klesmit comes with three years of eligibility left. He was Wofford’s second-leading scorer final season, averaging 14.9 factors, 2.8 rebounds and 1.9 assists whereas taking pictures 44.6% from the sphere, together with 34.0% from 3-point vary. He was named to the Southern Convention All-Freshman staff after averaging 8.2 factors and a pair of.7 rebounds in 22.7 minutes per recreation the earlier season. 

McGee will fill the outlet created when Bowman transferred to Oakland. McGee, a Racine native, performed one 12 months at UW-Inexperienced Bay. He helped Racine St. Catherine’s to the 2021 WIAA Division 3 state title as a senior, scoring a game-high 26 factors in opposition to Lake Nation Lutheran within the ultimate.

He averaged 11.6 factors per recreation whereas taking pictures 38.8% from the sphere at UW-Inexperienced Bay. He shot 80.0% from the free-throw line and 27.5% from 3-point vary.

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Essegian simply completed competing with the Indiana All-Stars after averaging 26.8 factors per recreation and serving to his staff to a second-place end within the state championship as a senior. He was on crutches final week however mentioned the damage was “only a sprain.”

Haertle, a guard, averaged 22.9 factors, 10.0 rebounds and 4.9 assists per recreation whereas main Lake Nation Lutheran to its first WIAA state title. He scored a season-high 35 factors within the state semifinals, adopted by a triple-double within the championship recreation. 

Candelino averaged 14.2 factors, 3.7 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.8 steals per recreation throughout his senior season at Ponte Vedra Excessive Faculty in Florida. The taking pictures guard had 16 factors, seven rebounds and three assists in Ponte Vedra’s state title loss March 5.